Man forced to tweet apology 100 times by court

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A Malaysian court is enforcing an old classroom punishment as part of a settlement that has been updated for the modern world. A social activist by the name of Fahmi Fadzil made the fatal mistake of using his Twitter account to accuse Female Magazine and its owner, Blu Inc Media, of mistreating a friend who was pregnant. Fadzil clearly thought it wise to apologize for the accusation within hours of making it, but alas it wasn’t good enough as indicated by a letter he received from the company’s lawyers which eventually led to a settlement with the company.

Fadzil received a unique punishment that takes the platform he used to make the false claim and turns it into a method of punishment. Utilizing his own Twitter account, he must post 100 tweets apologizing. Those apologies must be spread out equally over a three day period. His tweets began on Thursday morning and will finish up sometime on Saturday. Though each apology basically says the same thing, indicating there is some copying and pasting going on, Fadzil has uniquely numbered each post as verification of how many he has done so far toward his sentence of 100 tweets.

Though it can’t be much fun to tweet the same thing over and over, Fahm Fadzil is getting his 15 minutes of fame as a result of his punishment. He’s received a lot of attention on Twitter from followers and is even expected to appear in a live webcast with Aljazeera based in Washington. Fadzil has received some offers to assist in posting his apologies, but he has had to turn them down due to the fact that the settlement stipulates all apologies have to come from his Twitter account. When @nala_nat asked what his plans were after completing the 100th tweet @fahmi_fadzil responded, “to get some rest.”